Wednesday, May 02, 2007

It's a beautiful day here in "Killadelphia", (I love the Easy Coast in May) it's over the hump day, and there wasn't even a homicide in my fair city last night. So for awhile today, the field was feeling pretty good.

Then I get home, check my e-mail, and besides the fact that there was nothing from Lark, one of my trailer park fans sends me this.Now I don't know if it's because I am one of the few "angry black men" out here on the www talking shit every day. Or maybe it's the fact that I tend to call America on her bull shit whenever I see it, but I sure have allot of fans in the trailer parks-if you know what I mean.

Anyway, from time to time these fans send me e-mails and correspondence to let me know exactly how they feel about my black ass; not to mention the people who agree with my positions. But make no mistake folks, there are lots of web sites like the one I am linking here, and lots of people with some serious issues when it comes to race in America. Now some people might say that about me, but I have issues because of these other ignoramuses that I have to share this great country with. "But field they only send you nasty e-mails and treat you that way because you are a racist" No, I don't think so, in this case that chicken came before my egg. I am no racist, (I don't have that type of power. Now if I were in my native country of Jamaica f*****g with some white folks, then I could be considered a racist) but I will call a racist on his bull shit to the quickness. And trust me, there is plenty of calling to be done out here.

So since I know that they love reading my site, I would like to encourage my trailer park friends, and my friends with their sheets in the attic, to keep sending me e-mails and the hate mail. Frankly, it's nice to know that I am not wrong about you, and that you are going as strong as ever. I love being able to say: "I told you so".

In the end, this was a tough post for me, because I really struggled with whether to link this site (or sites) and send them traffic. But I think it's the right thing to do, because I like keeping it 100% with people who come to the fields, and it's important that you know what you are dealing with out here. So think of it as a little PSA from the field. My little way of keeping you informed and aware, in the home of the brave and the land of the free ;)

On May 1st I posted about the new biography on Clarence Thomas; hope to interview the authors next week. You really get an insight into the shady m-fs who were behind his appointment and who defend him to this day (he in turn is utterly oblivious, and that's the tragedy of the man). These are the people you have to fear. These other mugs are just low level scum...

I'm down with them n?ggas from Knoxville for giving back to those two privileged whytes all the ugliness & poverty they'd received in life; but Michael Thope slaying Jennifer Ross (direct heir to slave trade fortunes) is the best story to me.

He slew Ross slew on Christmass eve (2005) after she arrogantly rebuffed him after he'd demanded her purse.

The Ross family never made any attempts to pay their reparations so the killing of their daughter made up for their 'savage slave history' a little; but they have a son who still enjoying a privileged life off their family's slave era fortunes too.

Oh wow..I have arrived at the spot. I loved that post. I am new to your blog and just read it via my friend Justmewriting. Let me play catch up on your posts and I'll be sure to make you a regular stop.

"christopher felon" welcome to the fields, although I know you can't stay long, since any minute now the psyche ward you escaped from will send out an APB for your dumb ass.

Hey Field, how'd you know? Just kidding! No, but seriously I believe in Michael Thorpe and like the way his 'botched' robbery went down.

What better setting could there have been than Christmas eve? And follow the plot & characters here with me: a rich, 'beautiful', snooty, privileged and selfish whyte girl whose forebearers where cruel, cruel slavemasters.

WOW! I was totally speechless and somewhat saddened when I read this... I KNOW they're out there and I KNOW they're coming for us, but what a reminded you provided with those links. I regained the ability to speak again, as I exclaimed W.T.H. at sir, christopher felon, but I shall try to keep my tongue...WHEW!!! WELCOME TO CRAZY WORLD!!!

It doesn't take power to be a racist, the only thing that takes power is acting on the racism.

If I were to drop out of school, go live in a cardboard box and declare that gooks are the scum of the earth and should be wiped out with the camel jockeys as well, wouldn't that make me a racist even though I had no power?

"If I were to drop out of school, go live in a cardboard box and declare that gooks are the scum of the earth and should be wiped out with the camel jockeys as well, wouldn't that make me a racist even though I had no power?"

Yes woozie you would be a racist,albeit an insignificant one. There are lots of people like the one you described in your hypothet living in America.

Frankly, they don't bother me, but when they act on power given to them and it effects me; then I have a problem.

"woozie" you have not been reading my writings. I could care less about people declaring themselves to be racist. In fact, I encourage it. (That way I know who they are) But if they use any power given to them to f**k with my rights, well then that is always problematic.

After reading this, I can't tell you which I perceive as the greater threat, Al Queda or your garden-variety American racists. We're spending billions trying to bring "freedom" and "unity" to Iraq and we can't even get our own act together in the U.S.

Just for the record, there are also many of us uptight white guys (TM, Pat Pend) who think "christopher" and the folk(s?) doing that site are jackasses. Sometimes reading this site, it seems like that is forgotten.

Love the site black man. I was raised in the south, and I did my time in the fields, literally. Pea field, okra field, watermelon field (got to feed them white folks), peanut field and whatever else my farming grandparents were into.

Anyway, I like how you drop it here, so I will be back to check you out some more.

Hi ElitistJohn, you said Just for the record, there are also many of us uptight white guys (TM, Pat Pend) who think "christopher" and the folk(s?) doing that site are jackasses. Sometimes reading this site, it seems like that is forgotten.

Aaahhh correction, I'm no jackass; and, it's obvious you must not have read all Thorpe did to deserve to be rewarded wih this year's Rights. Too, you have clearly overlooked the kind of human being Jennifer Ross was. Aaaahhh, she turned down charity on Christmas eve. God let her live for 7 days ... until New Year's eve and then slew her. I recently read doctors, in their attempts to save her, pumped fluid in her body until her weight was some 200 lbs plus. And then she died - in the hospital her daddy is the president of.

What is God's message here? God's message is that pigs wouldn't be allowed in the new coming year and years.

What is God's message here? God's message is that heirs of slave owners will no longer be excused for if they haven't sought out their slaves descendant and given them their reparation.

In short, it sounds like the only reason you are uptight is because you know that somebody in your family deserves to have their purse snatched.

I get the hate mail too... from both extremes.... on one hand I get them from the red neck racists, and I also get hate mail from the thug/"Gangster" Rap apologists. I have gotten a couple of sick ones too.

When you get that kind of hate mail, it means that you are doing a good job.... you are hitting those nerves.

All, considering the nominees, the real question here is who deserves the Bragging Rights?

Me thinks even whites have to agree the poetic justice in the Michael 'Turtle' Thorpe & privileged Jennifer Ross saga warrants (pun considered but not intended)Michael 'Turtle' Thorpe getting the Rights.

I can tell you all agree on the cool!

It's widely reported that even the jail house gaurds are giving Thorpe his props on the down-low!

It is the kind of accomplishment an underpriviled, criminal minded black man can wear as a badge.

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